Suppository.



No. 725,831. I PATENTED APR. 21, 1903.

P. P. FEIDLER. SUPPOSITORY.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 8, 1902.

W2? 9a): fur/1152 UNITED I STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

FORREST F. FEIDLER, OF ERIE,-PENNSYLVANIA.

SUPPOSITORY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 725,831, dated April 21, 1903.

Application filed May 8, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FORREST F. FEIDLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Suppositories, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to suppositories; and it consists in certain improvements in the construction thereof, as will be hereinafter fully described.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, as follows:

Figure l is a side elevation of the device. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1.

As shown, the suppository is in the form of a ring. By forming it of this shape it may be made to surround the uterus, and thus reach parts not heretofore reached by devices of this kind. The shape of the device assists in the maintenance of the device in position until the medical elements of which it is composed may have the desired action.

By forming the suppository of material having a melting-point below the temperature of the body it becomes to a large extent selfadjusting. The neck of the uterus being Serial No. 106,478. (No model.)

warm enlarges the hole in the suppository, and thus permits the suppository to adjust itself around the neck of the uterus. This assures a proper application of the medicated material to such parts differing in size or condition.

Any formula of material may be used, but I prefer the following: sulfate of zinc, two grains; tannic acid, two grains; iodoform, one grain; oil of cinnamon, two drops; oil of Wintergreen, two drops; oil of eucalyptus, two drops; boroglycerid in quantities sufiicient to form the base.

What I claim as new is A medicated ring shaped suppository formed of material having a melting-point below the temperature of the body, whereby the suppository may shape itself to the uterus and the material forming it be discharged by the heat and action of the body.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FORREST F. FEIDLER. Witnesses:

H. G. LORD,

HARRY E. BURKE. 

